I'd napalm your troops and drone strike your officers.

Welcome to honest sentiment against the new Soviets.

Die, Putin, die, you small person.

Google went off the rails letting the employees go fucking crazy whining about social and political issues rather that doing their fucking jobs.

You want to a business? Stick with business.

Well, now they get to pay the price.

It's easy to make profits when you can simply imprison or murder people standing in your way, citizens or not.

Fuck china.

Tell me, do you not think having clean water and safe power is more important?

If your priority isn't species survival, you have bigger problems than being offended by common and genus names.

They have no choice but the read the old texts. That is where the bulk of useful data lives. I can't imagine anyone in a panic running to setup the presses to reprint all the reference material and textbooks.

I guess they need to justify their salaries.

Or perhaps they're jealous to have missed the golden age of discovery and being unable to name something after themselves?

This is a stupidity on a grand scale. I wonder if there's a Latin phrase describing that?

Think about all the whining and complaining about shredded birds and windfarms. Think about the complaints over fried birds at heliostat sites. Can you guess the reaction to microwaves frying things on the ground? IMHO, this idea is infeasible. Local pebble bed reactors or thorium reactors are a better solution. Both have issues, but I believe both are more easily solved and cheaper to implement.

The idea of beaming space-based solar back to earth has popped up in SciFi more than once. It works in novels. They gave it to the air force to mess with because the idea _isn't_ feasible. They don't want to tie up the high-energy labs that _do_ have a shot at actually producing cheaper power.

No matter what's happening in locally, Europe still makes my news seem good by comparison. If the EU leadership were not loaded with snowflakes who have never needed to labor for a paycheck and whose idea of being productive is taking meetings and writing regulations, things would be different.

America's professional politicians suck, too, but the EU breeds a special class of rabid asshat.

Of course that's what they're doing.

And nobody can stop them, either. It's a sad fact of life that Microsoft is too large to be concerned with any ruling to the contrary regarding the inclusion of their embedded browser. After all, they're more powerful than any government as proven by history.

Just live with it.

There used to be a "Free to me" setting, but they removed it after the last UI update that start putting those damned Freevee titles every damned place.

Amazon's encouraging piracy. Why should someone who has watched a particular series for ages suddenly need to see it ion Freevee with ads? Fuck them. Rip everything.

I don't give a damn how congested the network might be or how that relates to my data transfers to and from work.

Users paying for transfer speeds and rely on those speeds to work. So why is TMO going down that old bullshit "cable internet congestion" excuse rather than building out sufficient bandwidth?

TMO is treating users as though the Internet is a luxury that we should be thank for for the smallest bit of access rather than providing what users are paying them for.

Buy a clue TMO. Build out your damned network to support the shit you advertise.

IBM wants to force employees back to the office. Why?

The last few years have proven that an office presence isn't necessary for business to continue profitably. Otherwise, IBM would already be in dire straits.

80's mentality applied to the 20's. Wise move, IBM. Good luck with that recruiting drive.

Mark's work on The Rugrats is my favorite

The proliferation of "Best _Something_ for 2024," "Top _Something_ Picks for 2024," etc. websites and the overgrowth of daily content aggregator sites to get a click-through is damaging the rich experience that's missing. The SEO drive to generate ad revenue and the companies that support that activity are responsible.

When google was new, the results were for almost entirely individual websites. You got to see more small, cool places with niche content and the oddball crap that helped pass the time during a boring conference call. Searching for things today is like looking for chunks in a smoothie - the results are uniform with nothing to make them stand out. Instragram, twitter, tiktok, they're bloody handed as well - why make a website when you can post anything random brainfart to someone making millions off your content with so little effort?

Hence, some surfers get the impression that all the websites are gone from today's version of the internet.

There's still plenty of content, it's just that excluding the TopBestofInstaTikPinTwit sites from a search query take more effort than more people are willing to expend.